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Section4.In this Act—

copyright” means the exclusive right to produce or reproduce a literary or artistic work or essential part thereof in whatever form, and also means the right to display or perform it to the public, or, in case of a lecture, the right to deliver it, or, in case of an unpublished literary or artistic work, the right to publish it;

copyright includes the exclusive right—

(a)to produce or reproduce a literary or artistic work, to display or perform a dramatic work, or to publish a translation of a literary work;

(b)in case of a dramatic work, to transform it into a fictional work or any other work than a dramatic work;

(c)in case of a fictional work or any other writing than a dramatic work or in case of an artistic work, to transform it into a dramatic work by means of public performance or by other means;

(d)in case of a literary, dramatic, or musical work, to produce it as a gramophone record, perforated roll, or film, or to do otherwise to enable the playing of such literary or artistic work by a device;